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entirelyuseless
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He wasn't killed at all, for anything.
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entirelyuseless
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This is close (but not exactly) what I argue here: entirelyuseless.com/2018/03/25/har…
Not exact because I would say that "is S conscious?" is a question of whether or not it is reasonable to understand S in that way. Like the question "is S a table?"
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But you are a baby you will pout if your preferred party doesn't win. That is actually worse than caring about your candidate.
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It is less unifying to get votes from people willing to vote for other candidates, than votes from people unwilling to vote for other candidates. Because (willing + unwilling) > willing
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None of that would be enough to prevent such transfers from being beneficial to those receiving them.
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Obviously, prices in general (not only rent) would tend to go up somewhat under UBI or any other form of transfer, as they have under existing ones. And of course rent would obtain a large portion of that, just as it already does (rent is 2/3 of my monthly expenses.)
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Often anything you do in that tab will also be a bit slower.
Not fundamentally any different from the reasons why if you don't sleep for a few days, you will do things slower too.
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If you've changed, that's a fact, and you don't need other people believing it. If they don't, that's their problem.
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I agree there is probably a limit. I just don't think you can easily deduce that from physical limits.
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I don't see how that is a question of definition. The answer to "Will 11-33-44-59-67-08 win next the Powerball lottery?" would have been a pretty valuable bit of information, if someone had had it a few days ago. Not because someone defined it that way.
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Prosecutors are typically immune from being held accountable for their mistakes anyway. Even when they aren't mistakes but were done on purpose.
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"How do we get enough people into the fields to harvest food?" is a question, and the answer to a question is information. But it is true that it is not a tautology: if you have a bleeding gash in your chest, that is not a problem of information, because that is not a question.
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Is this a Socratic argument? If you purposely get into the habit of paying your bills, it cannot be justice because it was not justice that was causing you to pay them, so you cannot end up with the habit of justice?
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He is not a crypto communist since he is an open one.
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Quantum mechanical uncertainty may just be a particular specification of something absolutely necessary; namely that whatever sort of world we live in, it could not one that allows us to acquire an indefinite amount of precision in our knowledge.
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Not sure this is right. We already know, before beginning the investigation, that we cannot predict the future of our world with infinite precision (because otherwise we could cause a contradiction by pre-committing to do the opposite of whatever we predict we will do)...
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That is supposed to be Francis; counted by that prophecy, there will not be another (and some would say he is trying his best to fulfill it.)
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If that isn't clear, "mentally intended result" is *one specific kind* of final cause, not the only kind, and not the most general kind.
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And that shouldn't be surprising, given that good and being are convertible.
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I think this is incorrect. More fundamentally, "final cause" means "reason efficient cause behaves as it does," and the most general reasons of all for such things are logical/mathematical reasons (e.g. no efficient cause makes something both happen and not happen)...
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